Rosalyn Sussman Yalow's work enabled a safe blood supply

9:16 PM,
Jul. 18, 2013

Rosalyn Sussman Yalow

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"I was excited about achieving a career in physics. My family, being more practical, thought the most desirable position for me would be as an elementary school teacher."

Those who suffer from diabetes, need blood transfusions or have babies are grateful that Rosalyn Sussman Yalow was a determined young woman and followed her passion, because her medical research on isotopes at the Bronx Veterans Administration Hospital resulted in the discovery of radioimmunoassay (RIA), a process that enabled quick and detailed analysis of blood. She shared the 1977 Nobel Prize in Physiology or ...